Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 4 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 5 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 7 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 9 | Many British institutions are secretive , but few are quite so patronising about it as the City . |
| 10 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 11 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 12 | He will do well administering the Office , but I am frankly afraid of him in the House . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know what I was doing wrong with her in the middle of the year , but she 's blossomed now . |
| 14 | You 've not really had anything wrong with you in the past , have you ? |
| 15 | They all descended from a structure that was suspended high above them from the centre of the dome . |
| 16 | He rested the sack on the flat top of the culvert ; high above him on the slope he could hear somebody whistling . |
| 17 | ‘ Was he different with you after the dream ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Foreigners have no God , ’ she claimed , as if she wanted to weaken my resolve and then , correcting herself and asking God 's pardon , she changed this to ‘ Our God , the God of Islam , is different from theirs in the West . ’ |
| 19 | He need not be interested in it at the time when the insurance is effected . |
| 20 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 21 | ‘ Competitions now seem derisory to me after the ascent of a route of this scale ’ . |
| 22 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 23 | Calling them " temporary workers " merely made their situation clear to them from the start of their employment . |
| 24 | It would be heartless to deny her the pleasure of feeling that she is making a useful contribution to the preparation of meals , but it would be equally unkind not to make it clear to her from the beginning just who will be in charge and wearing the chef 's hat ! |
| 25 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 26 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 27 | It should have been made quite clear to you from the beginning that MI5 's word on this would be final . ’ |
| 28 | His exact instructions would be fed direct to him through the disc-jockey on Voice of America . |
| 29 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 30 | As a small boy I recall a very old gamekeeper ( at least , he seemed old to me at the time ) talking of gypsies having tame stoats in captivity . |